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david brodie joins us from edge water, new jersey. but first we will go to john zarrella there live in pasadena. john, we are about to enter the period that officials are calling seven minutes of terror, where they will not know if curiosity is alive or dead. >> that's exactly right, john. this is it. they've all been using the olympic term that they have to stick this landing. as you pointed out, that this maneuver to entering the atmosphere of mars, traveling at 13,200 miles an hour, in less than ten minutes from now, they'll be hitting curiosity will be hitting the upper part of the atmosphere, traveling that speed, from that point on, it'll maneuver its way down through the atmosphere. then a parachute will deploy and following the parachute deployment, it'll be slow to even further and then another series of events has to unfold where rockets have to fire. and the heat shield comes off. and the back shell comes off. and ultimately, curiosity will be tethered down. literally a sky crane down to the surface of the red planet. and then, that next phase of the operation is to jet s

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the hour. let's go back to jpl just outside pasadena, california. john zarrella is there to find out if everything is going according to plan. curiosity should be touching down on the surface of mars. one person described this as the super bowl, on the one yard line with one play left. how is it looking? >> reporter: that's exactly right. the reset for the viewers, this is the most complicated landing attempt ever by nasa with a spacecraft o on mars. they today do it because curiosity is so big. you can see behind me, about the size after small car, about 2,000 pounds. before they encased rovers on air bags. bounce on the surface, then come to the stand still, the air bags would deflate and you could wo have these great little rover tlaes could come right off the landers and take off. this thing is way too big for that. they today come up with this incredible set of maneuvers and pyrotechnics to get curiosity on the ground. and joy crisp is with me, deputy project scientist. and joy, good news, they were getting what they call heart beats. what does that tell us? >> we are getting to

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. the red planet in living color... nasa has released new images from the surface of mars. as john zarrella reports.. scientists are calling the pictures... simply awesome. --reporter pkg-as follows -- mission managers have released new imagery - taken by an orbiting spacecraft... of the landing site -- gale crater -- where the curiisity rover is just now getting its bearings.... firmly on martian soil... are the rover, and all of the components that helped it land safely on the surface... "and this is what we call - (applause) - it's like a crimm scene photo here (applause) - it's liie a crime scene photo here [applause]..." it was isual proof that the landing went according to plan... that black speck in the middle... is the curiosity rover... (music) animation illustrating its entry, descent, and landing on the red planet gave preview... the heat shield - that burned through the martian lies charred - 12- hundred meters away from the rover... the slowed its descent -- nasa released a photo - now lies on the surface about 600 meters from the rover... aad the sky crane - which helped owe

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the storm. john zarrella is in key west in and brian todd getting rained on. we are going to talk to them. but we are covering the storm, tropical storm, from all angles. chad myers, what do we want to know. >> we are talking 150 miles from the center, we are seeing rain come on shore here in south florida. you get winds 30, 40 miles an hour. and you see the lightning strikes. don't go out in the lightning. it kills more people than anything else. and here is the biggest picture. the sat lead. notice the colorful now-ness, it's evolving into a more organized storm. as soon as the storm gets an eye, the engine starts. it really beginning to go and that is why the hurricane center says, as soon as it gets going, it's on its way to go 70, 90, 100 miles an hour. i don't want you to focus on the line but i want to draw your attention that new orleans is back here oren the yez ear side of the eye than the hard side of the eye, which is mobile over biloxi and gulf port. it could turn to the right and hit parts of florida and stay to the left, like it's been doing. if you remember, the forecast w

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seems maybe it has dodged the bullet. that's where we find cnn's john zarrella. john, you got a break from isaac in terms of being relatively calm right now. but no one's really gone out to really assess completely. we just know there is standing water in some areas, right? >> yes, no question about it. when you talk about the keys, you're talking about 100 miles of just a chain of islands all connected by a series of causeways, series of bridges, small spits of land and certainly over years when you've had hurricanes approaching from either direction, whether it was from the west or the east towards the florida keys you get overwash, a lot of debris that washes up. you get flooding in the low-lying areas. this storm approaching certainly on the atlantic side. they had more wind and rain and a lot of tidal surge that came up as the storm approached. far less than what we saw here in this protected area, more on the gulf side. you can see just how protected we are. you can see the trees barely blowing over there now. you know, fredericka, earlier today when we first got here, we did se

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is happening where john zarrella is to explain why it seems so calm in comparison to an hour and a half ago. >> he's on th sunset side of key west. if you're on the east side of the ilan or far east as big pine and you're on ocean side, you're seeing all this wind come at you this way. whereas john, right there, the winds are coming across the island. he's not really going to get another side of this because what was the worst part, all this convection has now passed key west. there's not really any convection on the south and southeast sides of the storm. although, john, you are not in the eye. you'd have to be at about ft. jefferson to get the eye. that's where it will be passing. this would be the dry tortugas. the convection is to the west of this area and not any more coming in to john or from the keys. that's not saying there's not an awful lot of water piling up on some of the islands. you get up here toward vacacut or vocachica northward, i wouldn't want to be out there, you see the bubble of water rushing through the islands. if you've never been to the keys, it's an amazing place,

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's where we find cnn's john zarrella. gosh, it looks calm right now even though the water is moving rapidly. describe what's happening. >> that's right. we're watching this storm. it's been moving so fast, i think around 20 miles an hour or more now. we're beginning to wonder if the center of the storm is already -- is a lot closer to us or over us now. you're right, a couple of hours ago, the waves were crashing all along here, a lot of white caps on in protected inlegality here. the buoys were going and all those sailboats in this protected harbor area, also bobbing around and feeling it. the wind and the rain, much stronger a couple of hours ago. look down here, fredericka. that's sunset island over there. even then we saw tremendous amount of wave action, very close up to the island. here's another good indication. take a look at the palm trees down here. barely moving. and just a couple of hours ago as we watched all this, the palm trees outside that hotel complex there really moving fast. one of the thing, fredericka that i mentioned a couple of hours ago was, they really had a sense

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john zarrella's at the southern most tip of florida, of the u.s., as a matter of fact there where the gulf and atlantic come together. i see a few raindrops. lot of wind. what else is happening? >> reporter: fredricka, it's been picking up steadily all day, as i'm sure jim spelman was telling you earlier as well. what's interesting is that as we were driving down into key west earlier this morning, there are cars that are parked all along the roadway in the middle and lower keys. they call that the wilma syndrome. that's because when hurricane wilma hit down here seven years ago, hundreds and hundreds of cars were flooded out by the storm surge that came in. so we definitely noticed that difference. right along the highway is the highest point that overseas highway is literally the highest point of land along the keys. what we've got down here, another thing that was different that we noticed was a lot more buildings were boarded up. lot more sandbags out all along duvall street. people taking this quite seriously, even though officials in the florida keys don't believe -- they do

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want to get straight away to cnn's john zarrella. he's been with us in gulfport, mississippi. john, you can tell us what you've been experiencing and what's been going on right now. >> reporter: well, the worst of the weather that we've experienced through this entire storm is what we're getting right now. you can certainly see the trees are whipping around. the rain is horizontal. i was out there and behind me, the viers watching behind me, of course, the gulf of mexico to the south and highway 90 which runs all along the beach, the beach road throughout mississippi. and one of the big concerns, of course, here has been for storm surge flooding for the road to go underwater at some point. but as you can see, what we have had all day is the wind actually blowing from the east to the west. so you don't have that powerful onshore flow. right now i was out there a few minutes ago with waind meter an we were getting winds around 45 miles per hour. i'll take a walk out here, natalie, and people will get a better idea as i move away from the hotel, a little better sense of the kind of wind th

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through my lifetime. that's from mitt romney. john zarrella is joining us now, he's covered space for a long time. john, what else do we know about neil armstrong's death that seemed to have come so suddenly when we heard about it today? >> caller: that >> reporter: that is true, wolf. it was very sudden. i know after the heart surgery he had within the last month. i talked to some of his fellow astronauts, retired astronauts that said he was doing well, that he had come out of his surgery well. so now dying from complications from that procedure certainly taking everybody -- shocked everyone. you know, it's funny, he was always such a quiet person. and shied away from the spotlight. i saw him a couple years ago at an apollo 14 reunion. he went to all of those events and he seemed very comfortable when he was in those surroundings with his friends, with his fellow astronauts, but publicly, he always shied away from those kinds of events. we have a statement that came in a little while ago from charlie bolden nasa administrator. and in part the statement reads, as we enter this nex

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to take that unprecedented trip in the search for the building blocks of life. cnn's john zarrella is life from the jet propulsion lab in pasadena, california, who was just as excited as i am about this mission that's really pretty dangerous. they're calling it the seven minutes of terror and they have this amazing video on nasa's website, it's very well produced, and it kind of gave me some chills, john. explain what's going to happen. >> reporter: rob, what they're going to do is hit the atmosphere at 13,000 miles an hour and over the course of seven minutes a whole series of events have to unfold. they have to maneuver through the atmosphere, deploy a parachute and fire rockets to center them up with the planet. then they've got to come down on literally on what they call a sky crane down to the surface of the planet. all of that takes place in seven minutes. any one thing goes wrong and the entire mission is lost, but i want to show people back out here live, this is how far nasa has come, rob, since 1997. take a look at this. this is the sojourner rover, landed on mars, july 4, 1997.

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of terror. john zarrella is following all of this and he is near the nasa lab where cure i don't say is being rolled. 297 color images sent back. what do they show? >> reporter: what we are seeing, of course, on the video that we have out there now, is that die scent camera imagery that is made by maylin space industries down in san diego. they have done a lot of work with these color pictures. you're seeing the actual, it's like those old apollo landing images. i understand there's a lot more of those to come. they will be able to piece together even better descent landing. some of the pictures you're seeing from ground level were taken with that haz cam as they call it and you see mt. sharp in the distance. mt. sharp is one of the places that they want to go and they want to look at, kate, because that is where all of that sedimentary rock has built up over e ions and they believe th can look back far enough in time at mt. sharp to get better idea of what mars was like billions of years ago when it was more earth like and when it was wetter and when perhaps life had a chance to tak

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was shot onboard moments before touching down. john zarrella and chad myers join me now for more. so, john, let's start with you. you have been following the story very closely and are live at nasa's jetropulsion laboratory in california. tell us about this new veo and what exactly are we seeing? >> reporter: well, in fact, zoraida, what we're seeing in this video are images taking from the descent camera, made by space industries down in san diego. and the video shows the curiosity rover as it is descending down through the atmosphere to the touchdown on mars. it was 297 images all put together into one continuous short video. and then there was the haz cam image. they finally did get a higher resolution picture which shows mt. sharp in the distance. and that mt. sharp is, of course, critical what they are hoping to do is get over to mt. sharp eventually and they can look back in history at the history of mars. and i believe the news conference has begun out here at the jet propulsion laboratory and we do expect to get some new pictures coming in from this press conference. >> mechanism i

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if life was possible on mars. we've got cnn's john zarrella in pasadena at the jet propulsion lab. to land curiosity, nasa used a parachute method that they weren't even able to test. i find this funny because they call this the seven minutes of terror, quote. is this the hardest part of the mission or are we expecting other potential pitfalls here? >> reporter: always potential pitfalls, brianna. the bottom line is, without question, that seven minutes of terror. they never attempted this kind of landing before. the vehicle, you can see a model behind me here is so big at 2,000 pounds, the size of a small car, they couldn't use the other methods they had done in the past, the tried and true methods, air bags opening, bouncing on the planet and deflating and these rovers coming out. this was just too big to do that. they had to go to this method where they would fly through the atmosphere, a parachute would deploy. then they would fire rockets, stabilize the vehicle, then a sky crane literally with tethers lowering the vehicle to the ground, everything had to work perfectly if any one thin

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surface looks like and like all tech-savvy folks, it is tweeting every move it makes. john zarrella has that report. >> reporter: it may seem like the curiosity rover is your worst friend on twitter and just sending brag pictures from exotic places. me and my shadow and mount sharp and its operators tweet ed on dy one. now it is begging for more attention, and head's up, no, really, my head's up. as it beamed another shadow pic back to earth, and then it sent the first 360-degree photo from mar mars of, you guessed it, itself. but curiosity's operators say that it is all for good reason. >> we also took panorama of the deck, and we call it the deck pan, and we took it to document the state of the deck after the land i landing. >> reporter: and this is to give them a good look at rover before the science mission, and make sure it functions just as you see in the animation. and so far, so good. >> you can see the shadow of the arm in the image, and you can also see that the mast is deployed, which is excellent. that is what we are looking for. >> reporter: new totos also show a wide field

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.5 billion project is gone. cnn's john zarrella with more on this incredibly ambitious mission. >> reporter: don, the countdown is well under way, just a little over 24 hours now before you're going to have a landing on mars of the most sophisticated rover ever sent to the planet. when i say that, this is one of the reasons why. take a look at this. 1997, july 4th, the sojourner rover landed on mars. this is "curiosity" 2,000 pounds, the size of a small car, enormous by comparison. there's more complexity in literally in the wheel of "curiosity" than there is in all of the sojourner rover. jordan is one of the head engineers. jordan, take us through some of the key facets like this, this is phenomenal, this is the drill. >> sure, this is the drill and other ground sensing instruments as well as a sieve and a scoop. >> you're able to actually hammer rocks and pulverize them and actually look at them, put them in your chemistry laboratory right on board. >> that's right, you can see what the minerals, we can do organic chemistry on the rocks. >> reporter: everyone wants to know the first pict

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a live shot of the florida keys right now, go live there, cnn's john zarrella has been covering the story. any flooding in major damage? anybody hurt? what do you know? >> reporter: just within the last hour, don, i did have an opportunity to talk to the folks at the emergency management center in mara on this, the monroe county emergency management officials. they told me this is what they have. they had some sporadic power outages up and down the keys, but all of those have been restored. at that point an hour ago, no reports of any power outages. they did have some reports of some minor overwash in a couple of places along the key, but they expected a lot of that would recede. they are telling people to, you know, stay indoors, ride this thing out the rest of the night because you could still get some squalls moving across as the storm pulls away from us. in fact, you can look back out here in the distance, and you can see it's kind of a squall line rotating around there in the distance, as well, trying to work its way over to where we are. but it's still quite a ways away. but for the

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. it is a $2 billion gamble. here's john zarrella. >> reporter: eight months in space, 354 million miles per hour, $2.5 billion spent, nearly a decade of work. after all that, it will take only minutes, just minutes to determine elation or disaster. >> foull nights of sleep have eluded for for years now. >> we think about failure every day, how to avoid failure. >> reporter: after it reaches the top of the martian atmosphere, a series of precision, choreographed events will begin to unfold, events never before attempted, events so dramatic and defining, the space agency put together a short movie, calling it "seven minutes of terror." that's the amount of time it will take "curiosity" to plummet through the atmosphere and either crash or land safely. >> 1,600 degrees. >> if any one thing doesn't work just right, it's game over. >> reporter: "curiosity" is huge, the size of a small car. its size meant nasa couldn't use the tried and true landing methods, airbags or shock-absorbing legs. on top of that, the rover has to hit a specific spot, one place nasa thinks could have hints of past or pre

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minutes of terror."...///john zarrella... explains why. why. eight months in space. 354 million miles traveled. two and half billion dollars spent. nearly a decade of work. after all that, it will take only minutes, just minutes to determine elation or disaster."full nights of sleep have eluded me for a couple of years now.""we think about failure every day. we thing about how to avoid failure." after nasa's curiosity rover breaches the top of the martian atmosphere a series of precision, choreographed events will begin to unfold; events never before attempted; events so dramatic and defining, the space agency put together a short movie calling it: seven minutes of terror, that's the amount of time it will take curiosity to come through the atmosphere and either crash or land safely. "it heats up and it glows like the surface of the sun. 16 hundred degrees.""if any one thing doesn't just work right, it's game over."curiosity is huge. the size of a small car. its size meant nasa couldn't use the tried and true landing methods... airbags or shock absorbing legs. on top of that, the

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correspondent david brodie joins us from edge water, new jersey. but first we will go to john zarrella there live in pasadena. john, we are about to enter the period that officials are calling seven minutes of terror, where they will not know if curiosity is alive or dead. >> that's exactly right, john. this is it. they've all been using the olympic term that they have to stick this landing. as you pointed out, that this maneuver to entering the atmosphere of mars, traveling at 13,200 miles an hour, in less than ten minutesom

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. nasa says it is in great shape and working perfectly. so far. john zarrella, and the jet propulsion laboratory in california. and john, i have been watching you for days now and i stayed up and watched when it finally landed. i talked to you this weekend ap it is exciting then and exciting now, and what is the level like there today? >> yeah, it is spectacular and we have treats today for the viewer. you can see the room i'm in and it is actually yellow, because they are duplicating exactly what the conditions are like on mars. what you will see there behind me, that is the engineering model of curiosity.

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on opportunity landing on mars. we're going to go back to john zarrella now and talk about this. john, this is what i gathered from this press conference, that everything is working the way it's supposed to be working, that they're very excited about these images that they've received. i thought ken edgitt, senior research scientist there, actually got a little emotional. am i right? >> reporter: yeah, you know, he's been working with malin space systems down in san diego for quite a while, and, you know, one of the crowning glories for them for this flight is the descent imager. we talked about that before the press conference started. that's the one that got the images of curiosity going through the atmosphere and as it approached, you know, very much apollo-like pictures as it approached the surface. and the story behind that, zoraida, is that a few years ago nasa, to save money, decided they were going to scrap it. they weren't going to finish the project. there wouldn't be a descent imager. edgitt and mike malin said, you know what, we're going to finish it on our own and make su

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and this is the beginning of the amazing sights you can now see. john zarrella is on the phone from pasadena. john, you're going to take us through thee pictures, i know that, and the video. also, engineers will have the another briefing. what will they say. >> reporter: we assume what her going to do is give us an indication of the first checkouts of curiosity. the scientists wanted to go through and make sure the systems are all working and that will take quite a while and they don't expect to do a lot of science until a couple of weeks until every system is checked out but they are going to continue to give us these terrific pictures. and those pictures that you've been showing, carol, the ones we are seeing now, the descent image camera. interesting story there. mike maylin, made the image and we kind of call him the mars photographer. he has put many cameras are mars missions. interesting story here. a few years ago when nasa was in the process of trying to save money for this mission, they cut the camera out of the mission and we would never have had these pictures, except maylin decided to go ah

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. >>> the rover curiosity on the surface of mars, day five, nasa scientists just spoke to reporter john zarrella who's staying on top of e everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. so, john, they talked about the seven moments of terror, so to speak. why are they going over that again. >> yeah, fredricka. we hadn't heard about the landing and descent. they're still talking at this briefing because they're still all jazzed up by how well everything went and how well their calculations worked. in fact, they started off the press briefing by saying, you know what, we traveled more than 350 million miles to get to mars and we missed the entry target by less than one mile. that's pretty phenomenal when you think about it. they were, for all intents and purposes, right on track. then they began ticking off all of the different time lines throughout that descent and they actually brought up an enhanced image that was taken from the mars reconnaissance orbiter shown on the end of the parachute and they talk about how the parachute deployment took place right within the time line when they

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to john zarrella who is on the phone, and tell us the significance of this and what it looks like. >> yes, suzanne, i am not and was not that far from where david is the at the hotel. you didn't have to go far, and probably about two miles down the road from the hotel here, and we had expected that the westbound lane would be okay, because it was a higher elevation than the eastbound lane which is right down at the water level. david mentioned how you had the wind shift now coming more out of the south which is driving this water right up to the highway. the gulf is essentially gone, and i am sure that the beach will reemerge when the tide subsides, but from a mile or two from here in highway 90, both directions the lower portion of the road and the upper portion which is a little bit higher elevation that moves to the west side, and we were out and shoot shooting pictures in it. there are timbers covering the road, and sand covering the road and the water is now racing, because of the way that the wind is driving it, racing down highway 90, on both sides of the road from east to west. it

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didn't get to see those awesome shots? john zarrella explains. >> reporter: mike malet is the first to admit he's not real animated except when he is talking about his cameras, more precisely, his mars cameras. >> you can take this camera higher than that camera. and do a sweep from up there. you can look down on the rover. >> reporter: from nasa orbiting s satellites, his cameras have taken hundreds of pictures. this heart shape mound malin calls love from mars. this one, happy face. it's actually a crater. here's a gully on the red planet. evidence water once flowed there. but malin's crown ago chiefments m -- crowning achievements may be on mars. two of the cameras are his, two on the mast, one on the arm and the first pictures came back from his camera. it captured the stunning pictures as curiosity came through the martian atmosphere. pictures we almost never saw. to cut mission costs, nasa dumped the camera. it had already spent $1 million on. to finish the project, malin got some of the money he needed from extra funds in another mars project and picked up the remainder of th

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for the big landing. our john zarrella has more on the mission and what nasa hopes to find up there. >> reporter: the grand canyon. each layer of rock represent a period of history. it is a perfect place to see how earth evolved over millions of years. on mars, if you're looking for evidence of life, you go to a very similar place called the gale crater. here the layered rock provides a history of mars back to its first billion years. >> that period of mars history is a mystery to us. it's also the most exciting history for us because that's when it was most earthlike. >> reporter: that's when life is most likely to have developed. so gale is where nasa's "curiosity" rover is going. between a mountain and the crater wall. >> we're landing right between those two and kind of the only patch of flat ground. >> reporter: you could call "curiosity" the sherlock holmes of rovers, with a capability to do science that's more than just elementary. >> this mission really asks one of the most fundamental questions you can ask, is there life on any other planet besides earth. >> reporter: "curi

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there trawling through the everglades just to catch the pythons. john zarrella brought us a story of one of these hunters. check this out. >> the next ten miles seem to be the hot spot for burmese pythons. >> reporter: a reptile expert is one of a handful of men sanctioned by the state to hunt down and rid the glades of pythons. an extraordinary move in response to what scientists believe is a rapidly growing threat to the delicate ecosystem. >> it's a large predator. and they're eating basically everything in sight. that's the problem. >> chad myers is on the python beat for us today. this thing is 17 -- what 17.5 feet long. how did it get here? >> it was probably dropped off by an owner years ago that couldn't take care of it anymore. the first python they ever found in the everglades was 1979. >> okay. >> there were a few that got away in hurricane andrew. and that was the old myth. >> right. >> and of course some did get away. >> okay. >> but this is a mama. >> obviously, 87 eggs. >> yes, exactly. they now believe there could be 1,000 to over 100,000 other pythons in the everglades r

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as it is, and the capability it has, all of the options are open for science. john zarrella, cnn, jet propulsion lab at pasadena. >>> so you can follow curiosity on twitter @marscuriosity to track the latest pictures coming in from the mars' surface. that is all for us for this hour. i'm kate bolduan and newsroom i'm kate bolduan and newsroom international starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome, everyone, to newsroom international. i'm michael holmes in for suzanne malveaux once again and we will take you around the world as we do in 60 minutes. here is what is going on out there. [ gun fire ] >> rebels in syria pulling back. fierce air and ground attacks by the military in the city of aleppo forcing the anti-government fighters out of the neighborhood stronghold. for now, the rebels say it is a tactical withdrawal, and that reinforcements are already on the way. and meanwhile, the country has a new prime minister and former health minister who has been name named to replace the prime minister who you will remember defected to jordan four ys ago to join th

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yet of the martian surface. cnn's john zarrella is at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, where the lander is being controlled. these are amazing pictures. it's amazing to think how they can control that rover from where you are. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely, wolf. and some of those images that came down today you have the mosaic -- the full frame mosaic that shows literally the gale crater wall in the distance. in the forefront you can see part of the rover itself sitting there. and also the first little thumbnails of a panorama that they're going to be putting together. and a lot of those came from a mass cam. where i'm standing now, a lot of people call this, wolf, the sand box. what you see behind me is an absolute duplicate of the rover "curiosity." it's the engineering model. and it shadows "curiosity." everything that "curiosity" doe on mars, this vehicle will do. and vandy thompkins is joining me. you helped develop rover and now you are a rover driver and everybody always says a rover driver, well, that's cool. but nobody really understands what it m

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, that bad could continue for four to six hours, no kidding. john zarrella is right here. that's probably, i don't know, a good -- right here. gulfport, biloxi. that's just the one band coming on shore now and i'm not kidding you when i tell you, that's more than 100 miles from the center. so if it's progressively worse every couple of miles you get towards the center, you can imagine what's happening in plaquemines parish right now. that's why there was a mandatory evacuation for all 23,000 people. there's no way to safely get these people out of there. they didn't want to put the emergency services men and women in danger trying to save these people. if you're going to take this storm or drive up here towards baton rouge, it's going to take 24 hours to go from here to here. it's a slow-moving storm. you're going to get pounding wind, pound, pound and then the rain in with the surge. i've already seen surges at 11 feet out by shell beach. that's east of lake pontchartrain. the water is coming up. the difference between this and what was katrina, for the people of mississippi, alabama, and f

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>> john za zarrella reports. >> wolf, curiosity has landed. the most sophisticated piece of equipment is on the ground awaiting orders from a jubilant team. they could do nothing but wait for the signal to reach them from 154 million miles away. then suddenly euphoria. an eruption of emotions. [ cheering ] the your kosty rover, the centerpiece of this $2.5 billion mission was alive on the surface. it had survived the ride through the atmosphere. an incredible image taken from an orbiting spacecraft shows curiosity's parachute during the decent. >> all the things that kept me and the rest of the team awake for years. we don't have to dream about it. we don't have to think about it anymore. so it's a great thrill and a great relief for all of us. one of the six wheels sitting on the surface, a blurry image taken through a dust cover. the second a tantalizing slice of the landing site. in new york's time square people watched and cheered as the landing drama unfolded. here the landing team soaked by success. curiosity had threaded the needle right on target between a mountain inside the

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in mississippi. and the rain keeps oncoming. cnn's john zarrella is joining us from gulfport. what's going on there, john? unfortunately we just lost our connection with john zarrella. we're going to try to reconnect with him. as soon as we do we'll bring him to our viewers. he's in gulfport, mississippi, for us as well. maybe we've re-established connection with john. john, can you hear me? >> reporter: yeah, i hear you, wolf. i've been saying it's been more of a difficult situation than anyone expected this hurricane would be. we're going on now 18 hours of relentless rain and tropical storm force winds. it's dropped off just a little bit right now. [ technical difficulties ] >> i think we've lost our connection with john zarrella. we're going to once again try -- it's understandable given what's going on over there. you can see the pictures. we'll try to reconnect with john and update you on what's going on in gulfport, mississippi, as well. as the gulf coast copes with another natural disaster by the way, relief organizaons are already very hard at work. they're trying to provide shelt

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're about to see another hurricane hit this area. john zarrella, we'll get back to you. earlier today over at the white house president obama spoke about isaac. he's urging everyone to heed the warnings and take the storm very seriously. >> i want to encourage all residents of the gulf coast t listen to your local officials and follow their directions including if they tell you to evacuate. we're dealing with a big storm. and there could be significant flooding and other damage across a large area. now is not the time to tempt fate. now is not the time to dismiss official warnings. you need to take this seriously. >> very good advice from the president of the united states. we're just getting in a new cture of hurricane isaac from nasa. take a look at this. we'll put it up. we'll show you what's going on. there it is. you see the size of this storm. seems to be pretty well organized. it's moving slowly. we're told that that's bad news because it will hover over the gulf coast including louisiana, parts of alabama, parts of mississippi for a longer time leaving lots and lots of rain. a big

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, but may o the florida city is sprucing up anyway, and that includes the strip clubs. john zarrella is joining us now with more on what's going on. convention, strip clubs, expl n explain. >> reporter: you know, woit can't be all wrk at the convention so what do you do with your downtime? there are these clubs in tampa that are rolling out the red carpet. the waitresses are in red, white and blue. so's the vodka bottle here at thee dollhouse in tampa, they spruced up, put in a 225-inch video wall. they're bringing in a sarah palin look-alike too. no kidding. what did you put into it? >> i bet the bottom line will be close to a million five, inside, outside. >> reporter: yep, tampa strip clubs are dressing up before unkresing. there's an excitement in the air like going to the polls on election day, but going to the polls has a different meaning here. >> i've been in this business 30 years and i've got goosebumps thinking about this. i've never been so excited in all my life. >> reporter: there were these t-shirts made up that read thee dollhouse, rnc headquarters, certainly a must

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downstream. john zarrella's there. he has the latest. also the moment from the final night of the republican national convention that's got everyone talking, talking of course about clint eastwood, his empty chair moment, his performance i guess you might call it, a speech, his imaginary conversation with president obama. i'll speak with michael barbaro who wrote the story for "the new york times" and chief political analyst gloria borger about hat the romney campaign is saying. did they vet this, did they know what eastwood was going to do? advance? a stunning assertion from a catholic priest. he said in a lot sex abuse cases it was the teenage victim who was, in fact, the seducer. he's blaming the victims, the children, for being see dude e . he appeared to express sympathy for jerry sandusky. >>> all right, see you in just a few minutes. next, railing, literally, against politicings in america. get two times the points on travel, with chase sapphire preferred. ntgomery and abigail higgins had... ...a tree that bore the most rare and magical fruit. which provided for their every financial

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than a larger than life figure, a man who went beyond limits, fulfilling the dreams of a nation. john zarrella looks back at the man and his legacy. >> reporter: neil armstrong of born on his grandparents' farm in ohio in 1930. when air travel was still in its infancy and space travel was the stuff of science fiction. but armstrong says he had the same dream over and over again. he was hovering above the ground by holding his breath. armstrong took his first airplane ride when a ford trimotor, the kin goose, came to local airfield. the bug had taken hold. as a teenager, he began taking flying lessons, even before getting his driver's license. armstrong pursued his passion and earned a degree in aeronautical engineering. he joined the military during the korean war and flew 78 combat missions in navy panther jets. later, armstrong became a test pilot for the x15. the rocket plane that laid the groundwork for space travel. it was some ride. soaring an amazing 40 miles above the earth at 4,000 miles an hour. and then in 1961 during the height of the cold war, in the midst of the space ra

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. >> reporter: word has spread when the elephant is in the room, the money is good. john zarrella, cnn, tampa. >> oh, boy. everybody is worried about what i'm going to say after that. in order to keep my job, i will say nothing. as a matter of fact, i will go tohe

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, but i mean, it just looks like the horizon, and mountainous regions in part of curiosity. john zarrella is on top of everything at the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. what are we seeing here, john? >> well, don, let me bring you back here real quick before we show you the images again and tell you where we are getting those from and what they do back behind me, and you can see a model of curiosity and the mast there, and on either side of the masts are the circular cameras, ster stereocams and they are called navigation cameras, and they use those to navigate, and then the square cameras in the middle are the mast cameras. so, now, the pictures that they got today came from both of the different instruments, and now the nav cameras took the image that shows the deck of riosity, and on top of the deck of curiosity, you will see all of the pebbles. they are trying to figure our and in fact, the entry and descent landing team now has a job the do to try to figure out how all of the pebbles got up there, and they think it of course happened when the rocket engines were fire on the de

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for future experiments. john zarrella is tracking the mobile lab's movement. tell us about this laser blasting as it's called. >> it's exactly what it was, target practice see how this cam as they call it worked. at the top of the mast on curiosity is where the laser sits. and you know, it shoots out up to about 30 feet. and i have a little rock here as an example. now, if i were to put just a tiny mark, the size of a pen mark, that's actually bigger than the mark that the laser leaves. but what it does, it shoots out 1,000 watts of power. it vaporizes the tiny part of the rock, the plasma that's emitted an image of that is then taken by a telescope and through that the scientists are able to look at what the rock is composed of, get an idea is it iron, is there carbon in it. the things that they're looking for that would reflect that there were water in that part of mars or perhaps one of the building blocks of life. then if they so choose, they could take the rover up there and take a better look at it if they wanted to. they dubbed the fame of that rock coronation rock. i guess tha

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from the red planet. these pictures are more than just glamour shots. cnn's john zarrella is joining us once again from nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california, with the latest details. john, what's going on? >> reporter: you know, wolf, all the attention that curiosity is getting, it is certainly no doubt because of the tremendous pictures. in fact, more tremendous pictures came out today from these cameras up here, the navigation cameras, two on either side, the round ones, and those mass cams, the square cameras. and they showed us pictures of the deck of curiosity taken from above, looking down, showing all kinds of little pebbles and rocks on there. also, a panorama shot, a color panorama that came back in thumbnail of the whole surroundings around the rover. and of course, we hope to get full resolution pictures, perhaps as early as tomorrow. if you know what, through all of this curiosity is taking on a personality of its own. it may seem like the curiosity rover is your worst friend on twitter. just sending brag pictures from exotic places, me and my shad kind m

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goes away until the rain stop stops. but john zarrella is down where the rain has stopped right down there in grand isle and that is, ed lavandara here. and we have john zarrella in gulfport which is way over here sh, and we sent him over here, because there is going to be a surge and we know at least three feet of surge, and tell me what you have in gulfport, mississippi, sir. >> hey, chad, how did you know it was dry here, too. you are absolutely right. you know, actually, it feels like, you nknow, you are gettin a bucket of water poured on your head, and then for a while, it is like the atmosphere gets rung out, and right now, it is just dry here. it is windy and gusty and dry, but we have certainly not experienced anything of tropical, above tropical storm force here. and looking out into the distance, you were mentioning the storm surge why we are here, and the tide is relatively low and it is coming in now, but far from high tide. you can see the waves breaking, but i walked down there a few minutes ago and still not coming up past the beach, and that is highway 90 for the view

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to the football-field sized satellite. cool stuff, john zarrella. explain what is going on? >> well, we don't often get a look at the russian side of the space station, and most of the time when we see the space walks, it is the u.s. guysb and briefly on the live pictures and some of the tape are two of them outside, and they are moving a handheld crank. a handheld crane out of the way, and moving it to another location, and then they are going to put in a shield for some micro meteorite deflection, because even the tiny, tiny specks flying through space at 12,000 miles an hour can put a horrible hole in the space station, so they are working to put up a deflector out there as well, and they are doing the stuff for the arrival in 2013 of a new science module that they are going to put up on the russian side. so it's pretty interesting to see the, you know, the russian team out there, and you know, suzanne, this is the 135th space walk from the international space station and hard to believe there are that many. >> you have covered most of those. >> yes. >> and tell us about the conditions o

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. john zarrella, you are following this from los angeles. tell us who these guys are which companies what happened are they actually going to do for the space program? >> you know, this is really huge t has been a long, anticipated announ announcement. we have not had a way to get u.s. snauts to the space station since the retirement of the shuttle program. the idea was turn all this over to a commercial company. so what nasa did was today, they announced that the boeing company gets $460 million, space x, hawthorne, california, not far from here, $440 and sierra nevada in colorado get he is $220 million and continue developing their spacecraft that ultimately one, two, maybe all three of them will be take willing u.s. astronauts to the international space station by 2015, 2016 timeframe. the nation saad minute straighter, charlie bond, saying today from the kennedy space center where he held a news conference that this was a huge day for america and putting americans back to work. >> we are enabling nasa to do what we do best, reach for the heavens. >> it is costing $60 mall seat to fly

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when we see like little green men step in front of the camera. what do we do then, john zarrella? what do we do then? >> all right. >> thank you. we will get back. and here is what else we are working for you in this hour. >>> the shooter in the wisconsin temple tragedy allegedly tried to join the kkk and why his ex-boss said he had to fire wade michael page. >>> then, she was considered a hero for pulling ammunition away from jared loughner, the accused arizona shooter, and now patricia mace is calling for a bill on gun control. >>> and from iowa, hear what a investigator calls the state's biggest fish kill ever. i'm not taking your money. besides i get great gas mileage. what's that? it's eassist. helps the engine run really efficiently. it captures energy that assists the engine... so i'm never guzzling gas. oh -- that's hippie talk. it's called technology dad... here take two dollars. take the money. [ male announcer ] the all new 37 mpg highway chevy malibu eco. from conserving fuel, to the technology that makes it happen. chevy runs deep. to the technology that makes it happen. h

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curiosity took a successful test drive today. john zarrella is following all the latest developments for us from miami. tell us about the pictures we're seeing that are coming back now, john. >> yeah, wolf. nasa releasing one very cool picture today. kind of like the rover getting its learner's permit on mars. you're looking at the animation there that actually shows the rover which moved about 20 feet in all. and during that 20-foot move, you can actually see in the image that they sent back from space, you can see the image of the rover and the tracks it left behind as it moved to where it is currently sitting now. and this all sets the stage, because of the success, for moving the rover to its first destination in the next few days or so. it'll set out and travel about 1,300 feet to that first target rock they're going to go look at. wolf? >> very quickly, give us the latest on that bizarre tie that curiosity has to soviet -- the soviet air and nuclear program. >> reporter: yeah, well, curiosity's powered by what's calmed an rtg. radio isotope thermal electric generator. the u.s. ran out

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of it is being beamed back to one room where nasa combs through every bit of it. cnn's john zarrella takes us inside. >> reporter: i'm in the surface mission support area. this is where all the data comes down from the spacecraft and is initially gathered. it's quiet in here now. mike watkins, mission manager, is joining us. your shift is about over. i know you want to get some sleep. >> i've been up here for quite a few hours. >> take us through. what happens here? >> okay, so this room here, normally it's packed with engineers here. we're kind of staffed 24/7 for the first couple of weeks of the mission. normally is packed with engineers. we're about to start our transition we talked about earlier today. data comes down via mars odyssey. a little bit comes by the big antennas of the deep space network. that downlink comes first through this room. each of the engineers take a look at what that data's telling them. if you look at each of these stations, we've got power, thermal. the payload health, flight software. the engineers look at that. they make sure the rover's healthy. they get a fir

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's rover curiosity now on mars. john zarrella is all ov these pictures. they are amazing, john. share some with our viewers. >> reporter: wolf, we're going to do that. i want to tell you right now this is the curiosity rover behind me -- a model of the rover. and i want to show -- tell people, first off, right now it's 15 degrees below zero on mars where the rover is. it's actually a warm day there. and look at this. this is the rover 1997, july 4th, it landed on mars. you can see how far they have come here at jpl from that to this. and rob manning, the chief engineer is joining me. rob, all the incredible pictures coming back that we've gotten. show us the ones we actually saw the mountain in the distance. >> that's right. this is taken by one of the two redundant cams. there's a lef and right haz cam. we have redundant set of those. but this camera right here took the first image of this beautiful mountain. almost as high as mt. mckinly. a fantastic place. >> reporter: if we come around this side of the rover, the images we saw as it was descending through the atmosphere. >> well, this

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will be on the red planet surface. the big question, will it be in one piece? here is john zarrella with a preview. >> reporter: eight months in space, 354 million miles traveled. $2.5 billion spent, nearly a decade of work. after all that, it will take only minutes, just minutes, to determine elation or disaster. >> full nights of sleep have eluded me for a couple years now. >> we think about failure every day, we think about how to avoid failure. >> reporter: after nasa's curiosity rover reaches the top of the martial atmosphere, a series of choreographed events will begin to unfold, events never before attempted, so dramatic and defining, the space agency put together a short movie calling it 7 minutes of terror. that's the amount of time it will take curiosity to come through the atmosphere and either crash or land safely. >> it heats up and glows. 1600 degrees. >> if any one thing doesn't work just right, it is game over. >> reporter: curiosity is huge, the size of a small car. its size meant nasa couldn't use the tried and true landing methods, air bags or shock absorbing legs. on top of tha

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